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Bitola, Macedonia

Bitola, Macedonia

Bitola, the second largest city in Macedonia, seems to have teleported to our days straight from the Middle Ages. Here you can spend hours walking along the narrow streets with a slender row of mansions of the 18th and 19th centuries, and not suspecting that the rest of the world is in the 21st century. Bitola is for Macedonia what St. Petersburg is for Russia: the cultural capital and the “certificate of authenticity” of the Macedonian intelligentsia. During the Ottoman…

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